European Context:
Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
The MACC-III project is the current pre-operational
Copernicus Atmosphere
Service. atmosphere.copernicus.eu
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European Context:
Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
MACC-III /CAMS Services atmosphere.copernicus.eu
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Atmospheric Composition Services:
Ozone Layer and UV Monitoring
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Atmospheric Composition Services:
Ozone Layer and UV Monitoring – Ozone Layer
Ozone Hole Monitoring
Chemical Data Assimilation
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Atmospheric Composition Services:
Ozone Layer and UV Monitoring – Ozone Layer
Monitoring Ozone Hole Extent
Merged Satellite Time Series
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Atmospheric Composition Services:
Ozone Layer and UV Monitoring – Surface UV Monitoring
Surface UV radiation taking into account clouds and surface albedo taking assimilated ozone as input.
Courtesy FMI
Surface UV radiation taking into account clouds and surface albedo taking assimilated ozone as input.
Courtesy FMI
Erythemal (CIE) daily dose [kJ/m2] on 12 May 2008
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Atmospheric Composition Services
:
Air Quality and Atmospheric Composition
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Atmospheric Composition Services
:
Air Quality and Atmospheric Composition – NO
2
GOME-2 FM3
Metop-A
GOME-2 FM2
Metop-B
GOME-2 Metop-A data passively monitored by MACC-III
Courtesy: Pinardi et al. BIRA
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Extracted from the operational validation report for GOME-2
Metop-B level 2 products: http://o3msaf.fmi.fi

Atmospheric Composition Services
:
Air Quality and Atmospheric Composition - HCHO
Hydrocarbons/VOC
Ozone chemistry and aerosol formation
GOME-2 Metop-A data passively monitored by
MACC-III
Extracted from the operational validation report for GOME-2
/Metop-B level 2 products: http://o3msaf.fmi.fi
Courtesy: de Smedt et al. BIRA
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GOME-2 FM2
Metop-B

Atmospheric Composition Services
:
Air Quality and Atmospheric Composition -
Volcanic and anthropogenic SO
2
Effusive eruption of
Bárðarbunga – September 2014
SO2 over China – November 2007
Volcanic ash mass loading and
SO2 products from geostationary sounders under development
Volcanic and anthropogenic SO
2
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Atmospheric Composition Services
:
Air Quality and Atmospheric Composition – Fire Monitoring
CO
C
2
H
4
Courtesy D. Hurtmans/ S. Turquety/ C. Clerbaux
CH
3
OH
NH
3
Greece, 25-28 August 2007
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Courtesy P. Coheur
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Atmospheric Composition Services
:
Air Quality and Atmospheric Composition – Carbon Monoxide
Credits: ULB/LATMOS
EPS-SG IAS: CO profile , CO partial column, CH4 partial column, HNO3 partial column, NO2 total column,
NH3 total column, O3 profile, O3 total column, SO2 total column
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Atmospheric Composition Services
:
Air Quality and Atmospheric Composition – Global Lightning
Overlap with
U.S. GOES-R
Geostationary
Lightning Mapper
(GLM)
Annual flash rate (in flashes / km² / year) over the Earth (MTG view), as derived from U.S. LIS (low-earth orbit) observations at 0.5
° resolution
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Atmospheric Composition Services:
Climate Forcing – Greenhouse Gases
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Atmospheric Composition Services:
Climate Forcing – Methane
Metop IASI CH4 (&CO2)
Two studies on-going with the scientific community for assessment for assessment of the feasibility of operational implementation of state of the art retrievals
Artificial Neural Net,
Crevoisier et al., LMD
Optimal Estimation Method,
Siddans et al., RAL
EPS-SG IAS & Sentinel-5
CH4 products envisaged
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Atmospheric Composition Services:
Air Quality and Atmospheric Composition - Aerosol
Metop Multi-mission product
Metop GOME-2
MSG
Sentinel-3 OLCI & SLSTR
MTG UVN (Sentinel-4), IRS, FCI
EPS-SG 3MI
EPS-SG UVNS (Sentinel-5)
EPS-SG VII
EPS-SG IAS
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PMAp AOD Metop B
(June/July 2013)
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PMAp aerosol events: Volcanic ash plume June 2014
Volcanic ash flag
(PMAp)
AOD (PMAp)
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Atmospheric Composition Services:
Emissions and Surface Fluxes – Fire Radiative Power
MSG
Metop AVHRR
Sentinel-3 SLSTR
MTG FCI
EPS-SG VII
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Global Picture
Many other missions with contributions from
(list not comprehensive):
● NASA (EOS-Aura, EOS-Terra, OCO-2, CALIPSO, TEMPO ....)
● NOAA (Suomi-NPP, JPSS-1, -2, -3 ....)
● JAXA (GOSAT-1, GOSAT-2 ...)
● KARI (GEMS ...)
● CSA (ACE-FTS, MAESTRO ...)
● DLR (METImage, MERLIN ...)
● CNES (IASI, PARASOL, MERLIN ...)
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(USGS)
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GPM
Launched Feb. 27,2014 w/ JAXA; Precip
OCO-2
July 1, 2014
Global CO
2
SMAP
Oct 2014 w/CSA
Soil Moist., Frz/Thaw
SAGE III on ISS
Mar 2016
Ozone & Trace Gases
TEMPO
2019
Hosted Payload:
SWOT
Tropospheric
Oct 2020 w/CNES; Sea surface & pollution GRACE FO
Aug 2017
Fresh water height, slope w/Germany; Global Mass
& Water Variation
CYGNSS
2016
Cyclone
Generation ICESat-2
2016
Ice Dynamics
Source: S.Volz/ESD-Flight
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LIS (2016)
SAGE III (2015)
ISERV (2012)
RapidSCAT (2014)
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OCO-3 (2017)
CATS (2014)
HICO (2009)
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Global Picture
Resources:
● https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/directory
● http://database.eohandbook.com/
● http://www.wmo-sat.info/oscar/spacecapabilities
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